i8 AN HISTORY of " A G A R I C S ,
XIX. AGARICUS ftipitatus, pileo conico albido acuminato, lamellu
confertis- . fufco pallidis, Jiipite numerofo albido.
WHITE CLUSTERED AGARIC.
T A B. ' XVIII.
' J p H E ^ root is an irregular lump of a tough hard fubftance,
emitting numerous ihort grey dawny fibres , it is not furrounded
by a volva, and fupports numerous plants.
The item white, dry, gently tapering from the .root upwards/
the thicknefs of a fwallow's quill, two inches high, of a dry
light filky fubftance, but not fiftular. There is a white dawny
cumin, vifible only juft when the pileus. firft peeps above the
furface of the ground.
The gills are in one fcries, being all-extended from the rimof
the pileus to the top of the ftem; they are clofely arranged,
and of a thin and delicate fubftance :;their colour is white, with
a faint tinge of pale brown.
^ The pileus is conical, terminating in an acute point, which
point is tinged with a yellowiih brown, the reft white, the'furface
fmooth, the fubftance light and cottony. -In large fpecimens
it is about an inch in diameter; in decay it withers*, and
becomes like foft paper.
Grows amcmgft the Bark in hot-houfes. The fpecimen
here figured and defcribed, grew in the Pine-Stove of J. CAYG
I L L , Efq; at Halifax, November, 1785.
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